This gives an idea of the power available to anyone who wished to develop something like a translator for sign language, or a way of studying motion to develop physical therapy strategies.
"If they don't have access to learning a sign language that's already in existence, then a community of deaf people will find a way to communicate, " said Leanne Hinton, a professor emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley.
It is well known that when deaf children interact they spontaneously create a sign language.
That's what the Hawaii university researchers say happened -- even if few realized that a distinctive sign language existed for decades on the island until now.
That might mean tapping into a well-established language, like ASL or International Sign Language, or finding some other way to get a point across.
Though the sample Doctor Web found targeted Russians by piggybacking on an application for listening to music on the popular Russian social media site Vkontakte, screenshots of the malware show that the fraudulent installer uses English-language text, a sign that it may also be targeting non-Russians.
FORBES: New Mac Malware Scams Users Into Signing Up For Cellphone Charges
Last December, the video of a college-level sign language project went viral on YouTube.
FORBES: The 'Forget You' Sign Language Video Has Been Silenced
Currently, there is a national shortage of sign language interpreters in the United States, even though there are 40 schools offering bachelor degree programs in American Sign Language (ASL) interpreting and 78 that offer associate degrees.
FORBES: Lydia Callis and the Biggest Industry You've Never Heard Of
Campaigners have welcomed the storyline - which features two of the characters fighting after a furious row in British Sign Language.
Fluency in the language of Shakespeare is regarded as a sign of modernity, sophistication and power.
Mackenzie is partially deaf, wears a hearing aid and communicates through sign language.
His job is to lobby his former colleagues not to sign a letter that has that exact same language in it, word for word.
The only contact with the foreign Trailmen is through trade conducted once a year in silence and by sign language, since the isolated tribes are thought to have no common language.
Tuesday's episode, which coincides with Learn To Sign Week, features a storyline using deaf characters - both of whom are played by deaf actors - together with a hearing actor who uses British Sign Language.
The same tech was also used to read sign language, displaying the intended letters on the screen for a quick translation.
ENGADGET: Sigma R&D shows Kinect sign language and Jedi savvy to win gesture challenge (video)
However, Obama said earlier Friday in an interview with Spanish-language television network Univision that he would not sign a bill that does not include the pathway to citizenship.
The Knitting Circle has a cast of eight which includes two British Sign Language speakers.
Reading and writing problems appear to develop in deaf people because sign languages are not phonemic in the sense that a spoken language is.
All of these sign-language-like movements, which are customizable, would control a gadget in a person's pocket through a Bluetooth connection.
"It's terrible business ethics to be lying and then just get people to sign a contract, especially if English isn't their first language, " says Richard Painter, professor of corporate law at the University of Minnesota.
Clever Princess was successfully taught how to use sign language, and was also nearly very successful staging her own escape attempt via a docked canoe.
An early sign of that, cynics say, is a decision to boot a Georgian-run Russian-language television channel off France's Eutelsat satellite.
According to a report by NDCS, 56% of local authorities in England do not provide any sign language services for families while 44% provide various levels of support.
应用推荐